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Lorenz remembers standing for six hours on a packed express train that runs between Belgrade and Athens. "We played gin rummy," he said. "One guy was the table--his right hand for the discard pile and his left for drawing...
Time of Decision. Last week Pibul achieved exile. With him into discard, but in a different direction, went the more powerful of his two oldest and closest political cronies, Police Chief General Phao Sriyanond. His second longtime crony, Army Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat, stayed on in Bangkok, comfortably ensconced as the new political leader of Thailand...
Next day John Foster Dulles publicly avowed in his press conference that the U.S. was not playing solo. The disarmament discussions, he said, are not "just between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. And we are not going to throw into the discard the views of our allies merely in the interest of making progress on a bilateral basis with the Soviet Union...
...psychological effects are not really considered too important, for while the College is ready to provide advice, and psychiatric help if necessary, it will scarcely discard an entire educational framework to solve problems it considers essentially personal. Change will only come if teachers and students feel that more can be learned, in some circumstances at least, without grades...
...fortunate enough to keep most of the budget, with the program which nobody wants to discard, but there is no chance at all for a school construction bill or for civil rights legislation...